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  1. Tidy Views and Beyond with Decorators

    The problem Here’s a view serving monkeys#show. What’s wrong...

    Harold Giménez
    December 2, 2011
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Rails
    • Good Code
  2. The One-Method Silent Killer in Your Cucumber Suite

    A regular expression bug in selector_for.

    Jason Morrison
    November 3, 2011
    • Web
    • Testing
    • Ruby
    • Good Code
  3. Design Patterns in the Wild: Null Object

    I knocked out a pretty decent refactoring of some of the internals of Factory...

    Josh Clayton
    November 1, 2011
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Testing
    • Good Code
  4. Appraisal: find out what your gems are worth

    Since the introduction of bundler to the Ruby community, dealing with...

    Joe Ferris
    October 29, 2011
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  5. Test Rake Tasks Like a BOSS

    Testing Rake tasks is one of the most painful things I do as a Ruby...

    Josh Clayton
    October 26, 2011
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Ruby
    • Testing
  6. Factory Bot 2.2, your new best friend!

    Aside from a handful of internal code clean up, Factory Bot 2.2 brings a...

    Josh Clayton
    October 14, 2011
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    • Factory Girl
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  7. Getting Sequential: A look into a Factory Bot Anti-pattern

    I’ve noticed a handful of what I’d consider Factory Bot anti-patterns, either...

    Josh Clayton
    October 3, 2011
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  8. Testing Rails Applications with Capybara Webkit

    Modern applications use Javascript. You can make rich user interfaces that...

    September 17, 2011
    • Web
    • Rails
    • JavaScript
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    • Capybara Webkit
  9. Interacting with a Javascript confirmation from Selenium

    Driving the browser to click within a dialog box.

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    September 7, 2011
    • Web
    • JavaScript
    • Testing
  10. FactoryBot 2.1.0 Brings the Heat

    FactoryBot 2.1.0 has been released.

    Josh Clayton
    September 2, 2011
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    • Factory Girl
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